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US
/ˈsɛɫfɪʃnəs/
]
[ UK /sˈɛlfɪʃnəs/ ]
[ UK /sˈɛlfɪʃnəs/ ]
NOUN
- stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
How To Use selfishness In A Sentence
- Machiavelli was a chief target of the philoso - phes because he preached an amoralistic selfishness which promoted despotic arbitrariness. MACHIAVELLISM
- Both acts are born of reckless selfishness and crass stupidity and both should be condemned. The Sun
- Those on the left side accentuate anger, hate, jealousy, and selfishness. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
- There are rare instances of secret and entirely human selfishness. Times, Sunday Times
- So while selection within groups favors selfishness, those groups with many altruists do better. SuperCooperators
- When a man forbids his wife to marry again without losing what he leaves -- it's what I call selfishness after death. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures
- His selfishness and single-minded pursuit ‘to be someone’ has left casualties along the way.
- Nor, of course, can individuals, families, and communities, survive if the order of the natural world or the ecosphere is destroyed, as even the most extreme adept of the cult of selfishness will soon realise.
- His examples from the past reveal that greed, hubris and selfishness often impeded recognition of a problem until it was too late.
- Were your relationships characterized by service or by selfishness? Christianity Today